The impact of urban regeneration on transforming the image of a declining district: The case of the Bardo district in Constantine (Algeria) by Guerdouh Amal, Naceur Farida

“…It finds that while the urban park has significantly enhanced the city's landscape and created a new public space, the project's focus on visual appeal has not fully addressed the underlying social and economic challenges faced by residents. …”
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Schools and New Learning Spaces in Milan. An Educational Experience by António Carvalho, Szymon Ruszczewski, Filippo Piscioli

“…The student design proposals are approached by exploring the link between the school and the public space, the school and the neighbourhood, and the school and the street. …”
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La communauté Nova Esperança (PR) : l'incorporation des droits des migrants internationaux et des réfugiés aux revendications des mouvements de lutte pour le logement au Brésil... by Elaine Cristina Schimtt Ragnini, Daniele Regina Pontes, José Ricardo Vargas de Faria, Márcio de Oliveira

“…The Comunidade Nova Esperança was created in 2020 in a public space on the outskirts of the city of Curitiba, capital of the state of Paraná, based on the actions of the Popular Movement for Housing (PMH). …”
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Euro-Med Abandoned Small(er) Towns. A landscape/ecological urbanism perspective for sustainable regeneration in Basilicata inlands by Alessandro Raffa

“…Performative bio-cultural green infrastructure, through the multiplication of public space, could support sustainable processes, in an ecological, economic and social sense. …”
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THE DYNAMICS OF STATE-SOCIETY RELATIONS AND DEMOCRATIZATION IN NIGERIA by OGBONNA Emmanuel Chijioke, ALUKO Bayode, ADEYANJU Joseph

“…It agrees that there is a rich culture of civil society in Nigeria, but appraises state-society relations as a larger umbrella with a greater incentive in public space construction. Focusing mainly on secondary data, the paper argues that all the factors facilitative of democratisation, free, fair, and periodic elections, protection of civil and political rights, political literacy, accountability, and freedom of the press, remain on the shoulders of constructive state-society relations. …”
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The pedestrian in west Africa’s town, the poor parent of mobility in the Sahelian city of Ouaga-Dougou in Burkina Faso by Soma Assonsi, Yameogo Lassane

“…Specifically, the study aims to identify the daily movements of pedestrians in Ouagadougou, to analyse the impact of the occupation of public space, particularly the edges of the road, on pedestrian mobility and to better understand the sharing of traffic spaces for safe pedestrian mobility in this city. …”
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Urban Vulnerability Analysis Against earthquake hazard With the ELECTRE FUZZY method (Case Study: Karaj Metropolis) by Fatemeh Khodadadi, Mojgan Entezari, Farzaneh Sasanpour

“…The method of research and analysis of information collected based on database-based methods using the ELECTRE FUZZY model and Criteria for building materials, number of floors, quality of buildings, population density, building density, area of parts, width of passageways, geology, distance from faults, distance from medical centers, distance from public space, distance from urban facilities and travel compatibility for research purposes Were used. …”
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¿Una nación en bosquejos? Procesos de identificación aymara en Chile durante el periodo transicional, 1990-1993 by Cristina Oyarzo

“…As a result, demands were better articulated and gained visibility in the public space, and thus, an incipient idea of an Aymara nation emerged. …”
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Masculinité et relations de genre dans la société secrète abakuá by Géraldine Morel

“…Power games between individuals based on machismo and honour are a way of dealing with individual strategies for moving in the public space of the ambiente. Machismo as a system of power is legitimised through mythological, ritual and social practices. …”
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Peníze v životě měšťanek předbělohorského období by Michaela Hrubá

“…The study concludes by saying that if a townswoman had access to money – inherit- ed it, managed to earn it and count it, she could do what she liked with it – in a certain sense money opened up a public space for her. Not a space associated with local govern- ment or politics, but in the economic sphere or in social and cultural life, in the broad sense of the words. …”
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“Walls of Words”: Paperscape in Charles Dickens’s Novels by Céline PREST

“…Simultaneously, these words go beyond the space allotted to them, erecting walls of words in the public space, constantly modifying the cityscape. This new urban landscape became possible with the lifting of paper taxes and the technological evolutions of the nineteenth century. …”
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Assessing public support for air pollution mitigation and control policies: health, socioeconomic, and ideological predictors in an overburdened and vulnerable region of the U.S. by Gilda Zarate-Gonzalez, Paul Brown, Ricardo Cisneros

“…Residents supported air pollution control and public space preservation, with socioeconomic factors and health state being significant predictors. …”
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Ewolucja ustawodawstwa i orzecznictwa Sądu Konstytucyjnego Ukrainy w kwestii języka państwowego by Rafał Czachor

“…National parties have advocated for declaring the Ukrainian language as the sole official language and in doing so eliminating the Russian language from the public space. The Communists and parties personally and financially related to pro-Russian parties have tended to value the Russian language to preserve bilingualism and even maintain its factual dominance in everyday life. …”
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Optimizing Microclimate Comfort in Macao: ENVI-Met Simulation of High-Density Urban Layouts Under the Climate in the Lingnan Area by Xun Zhou, Yichen Sun, Tianyu Li, Yaming Zhou, Tao Tan, Chengzhi Yu, Siyang Dai

“…This design strategy provides not only generous public space for fostering community activities and stronger social bonds, but also creates a visually appealing and cohesive aesthetic. …”
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Impact of Urban Neighborhood Morphology on PM2.5 Concentration Distribution at Different Scale Buffers by Zhen Wang, Kexin Hu, Zheyu Wang, Bo Yang, Zhiyu Chen

“…This framework, through standardized parameters and reproducible procedures, supports cross-regional and cross-scale air quality assessments, providing quantitative metrics for urban planning, neighborhood optimization, and public space design.…”
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What Is My Plaza for? Implementing a Machine Learning Strategy for Public Events Prediction in the Urban Square by Jumana Hamdani, Pablo Antuña Molina, Lucía Leva Fuentes, Hesham Shawqy, Gabriella Rossi, David Andrés León

“…In recent years, awareness has risen of the need to re-activate these public spaces to strive for social inclusion and urban resilience. …”
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Educational Potential of Cities – Russian University Centers as a Factor of Increasing Their Competitiveness by T. F. Kreydenko, M. D. Petrovic, V. N. Kholina

“…The current stage of the country development is characterized by increasing the role of universities not only in the educational and public space of the country, but also in the socio-economic advancement of cities and regions. …”
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Self-representation: A review on Selfie Photos in Social Media According to Goffman's Dramaturgical Theory by Keyhan Valinejad

“…To describe and analyze the theoretical subjects, several original research articles and e-books were adopted.Findings: The individual and social identical patterns and the attempt to present a proper selfie in social media are more frequent, flexible, and even interactive compared to the real world due to the self-management nature of these environments.Conclusion: Social media has brought a new public space that enables multiple identities. According to Goffman's theory, uploading a selfie photo can be interpreted as a play, in which the subject consciously manipulates his/her characteristics even in a slight manner. …”
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One Nudge Can Be Enough:Reducing Cigarette ButtLittering in Public Areas by Artsiom Klunin, Matúš Sloboda, Emília Sičáková-Beblavá, Patrik Pavlovský

“…Although this approach is gaining popularity, there remains a lack of evidence from field (quasi-)experimental studies on the effects of behavioural interventions in reducing pollution in public spaces. …”
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The Factors Influencing the Sense of Home in Nursing Homes: A Systematic Review from the Perspective of Residents by M. D. Rijnaard, J. van Hoof, B. M. Janssen, H. Verbeek, W. Pocornie, A. Eijkelenboom, H. C. Beerens, S. L. Molony, E. J. M. Wouters

“…The sense of home of nursing home residents is influenced by 15 factors, divided into three themes: (1) psychological factors (sense of acknowledgement, preservation of one’s habits and values, autonomy and control, and coping); (2) social factors (interaction and relationship with staff, residents, family and friends, and pets) and activities; and (3) the built environment (private space and (quasi-)public space, personal belongings, technology, look and feel, and the outdoors and location). …”
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